PRE BOARD EXAM QUESTIONNAIRE

PLANNING

____ 1. The highway should be the spine of communications which would provide access to industry
and housing bordering upon it.
A. Daniel Burnnham C. Le Corbusier E. Ian Bently
B. Soria Y Mata D. Frank Floyd Wrigth
____2. “ Make no little plans “
A. Daniel Burnnham C. Le Corbusier E. Ian Bently
B. Soria Y Mata D. Frank Floyd Wrigth
____3. “ La Ville Contemporaine “ The city for tommorow for 3,000,000 people. Sixty-storey office
building with the density of 1, 200 persons per acre and covering only five percent of the ground
area set within landscape open space. The hub of the plan is the transportation center for motor
and rail lines, that proof of which is the air field, main highways are elevated.
A. Daniel Burnnham C. Le Corbusier E. Ian Bently
B. Soria Y Mata D. Frank Floyd Wrigth
____4. Broadacres is essentially a “linear “city form. It distributes industries, commerce, housing,
social facilities and agriculture along the railroad artery and its access to highways. The unit
dominates this plan is the minimum of one acre of the land for each family rather than the
neighborhood unit.
A. Daniel Burnnham C. Le Corbusier E. Ian Bently
B. Soria Y Mata D. Frank Floyd Wrigth
____5. Emphasized five general features of a good city planning, namely: permeability, variety, legibility,
robustness and visual appropriateness.
A. Daniel Burnnham C. Le Corbusier E. Ian Bently
B. Soria Y Mata D. Frank Floyd Wrigth
____6. Allow for the integration for the variety of uses such as residential, commercial, recreational,
open space within the site of at relatively higher densities.
A.Mixed-used Development C. TND E. None of the above
B. Cluster Development D. TOD
____7._____ Is an important component of growth management because it helps focus the community’s
development initiatives on the existing fabric of the town or city rather than focusing on the
undeveloped land.
A.Mixed-used Development C. TND E. None of the above
B. Cluster Development D. TOD
____8. Target vacant, under utilized sites within designated growth of urban areas and outline strategies
to promote higher densities of development within these sites.
A.Mixed-used Development C. TND E. None of the above
B. Cluster Development D. TOD
____9. It is a land use control device that clusters developmant at higher densities on a portion of
property, while allowing the remainder of the parcel to be preserved as undeveloped open space.
A.Mixed-used Development C. TND E. None of the above
B. Cluster Development D. TOD
____10. Built at a neighborhood scale or larger, focus on the pedestrian, and include a mixed of land
uses and housing types.
A.Mixed-used Development C. TND E. None of the above
B. Cluster Development D. TOD
_____11. According to Eliel Saarinen;
A. In the creating of health environment natures collaboration is not only important, but also
indespensible.
B. Every community needs a symbol of its existence much of modern community frustration has
come into being because a symbol of the visual meaning for its life is missing. Because no symbol
is found, there is no center on which to focus life.
C. In every historical epoch except our own, the cultivated and influential person, the civilized,
polite and urban citizen, inevitable lived within the city.
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
_____12. The ideal size of a city or polis; less than 10,000 people are too few to constitute a viable
political entity and more than 20,000 are too unwieldy.
A. Socrates C. Vitruvius E. None of the above
B. Aristotle D. Hippodamus
_____13. He proposed regular street layout along gridiron patterns.
A. Socrates C. Vitruvius E. None of the above
B. Aristotle D. Hippodamus
_____14. Introduced the idea of major and minor streets- too many streets at right angles. They were
called a “ Cardo “ and decumanus and divided the town into four quarters.
A. Greeks C. Egyptians E. Filipinos
B. Romans D. Americans
_____15. He coined the term “connurbation” to describe the waves of population inflow to large cities.
A. Patrick Geddes C. Barry Parker E. Robert Owen
B. Ebnezzer Howard D. Daniel Burnham

KEY ANSWERS
1. B.
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. E
6. A
7. E
8. E
9. B
10. C
11. A
12. B
13. D
14. B
15. A